The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful World. How unhappy are those who do not know their own misery! How unhappier still are those who know this miserable and corruptible life, but also love it! Why? They have embraced this misery even when it has brought them only the barest necessities. Labourers and beggars they are! However, they would still rather hang out on this Earth than give a thought about the Kingdom of God. The home should be the great workshop of the Lord. Here is where children must be taught to walk in ways of truth and soberness, of love and service to each other. The most effective examples a child will ever have—for bad or for good—are one’s own parents. Few of us realize how very pliable and teachable children are in their primary years of life. How quick they are to pick up parental habits and traits and teachings! May I suggest that parents must require more of themselves. May I recommend that parents give more of themselves, that they give more good experiences to their children, experiences that are love-producing and family-solidifying. Whether the times they give are measured in minutes or hours is not as important as what they do in them. It may be five minutes at a child’s bedside each night or a fifteen-minute walk in the evening. It may be a day in the hills or a three-minute phone call at midday. It may be a clever love note a little girl or a night out to a ball game with a boy. It can even be the experience of a family home evening. It can even be the experience of a family learning to pray together and reading the scriptures together. #RandolphHarris 1 of 25

We must expand our thinking on ways to develop happy children. As the Lord has said, the power is within us to do so. The ways of the Lord are simple ways. Simple experiences with children develop unbreakable ties that will endure forever. It might be something as simple as smiling more in your home. This wisdom of the flesh—that is all some people know. Insane of mind and soul, they laze about the loam and think they are in Heaven. When their end comes, these wretched folks will surely realize that their love for the things of this Earth is low-down, even loathsome. The Saints of God, on the other hand, and the Devouts, all friends of Christ, paid no attention to their carnal desires and what passed for pleasure in their time. They focused only on their eternal desires. They ogled only the Perennials and Invisibles; the Visibles they ignored lest they drag them down to the lower depths. Do not, dear friend, lose confidence in making spiritual progress. There is still time, still opportunity. Why do you postpone your plan? Arise this instant, and begin to pray. Now is the time to do something—that is what Paul asked the Corinthians, in his Second Letter, to do (6.2)—to stand up and fight, to make the necessary changes. When you are doing badly and your head aches, you think it is the end of the World. If it is, fine. However, if it is not, there is time to do something worthwhile. It is necessary to go through fire and water, before the warmth returns to the coolth. No pain, no gain—at least as far as vice is concerned. As long as you beg off because your body might bruise, you cannot be without sin or live without tedium and pain. #RandolphHarris 2 of 25

We would like to have a respite from all the misery, but we cannot. We have lost our innocence through sin. In the same Fell Swoop we lost our True Beatitude. Is there no hope? Well, there is always Patience, which the Letter to the Hebrews tries to offer (10.36). We must hold on to it, as we wait for the mercy of God. How long will that be? Until this iniquity that passes for life has ebbed and this mortality has been wrung from our soul; that is Paul’s best surmise in that same letter to the Corinthians (2 Corinthians 5.4). Our porcelain’s perfect, or so we think, but that is when the brown vein come a-creeping. Today we confess our sins, but tomorrow we commit more of the same. Now we propose to be on the lookout; yet after an hour we do what we promised we would not. Deservedly, therefore, we should humble ourselves. But how can we do that? We should go into a corner and not think of the wonderfulness of ourselves. Why? you ask for the thousandth time. We all develop veins, yes, but we also manage to fall off the self. Which is another way of saying the obvious. All too soon what we have acquired with hard labour, and with additional help from Grace, can be lost in a nonce through negligence. If we get up in the morning with a grouch and drag ourselves through the day, what will we have done by nightfall? Peace and Security—those are the virtues singled out by Paul Silvanus, and Timothy in their First Letter to the Thessalonians (5.3). We have to pretend we have them, but why would we work to get them? Why do we want just to lie down and go back to sleep? In our conversation, why is there not a hint, just a scent, of True Sanctity? #RandolphHarris 3 of 25

Perhaps we should get back to school, pretend we are novices again, and listen to all those tedious instructions about how to change our behaviour. Perhaps there would be hope we could make some changes now and progress a little father down the road to spiritual perfection in the future. In a matter of decades energy may once more become abundant and inexpensive as a result of startling technological breakthroughs or economic swings. However, whatever happens, the relative price of oil is likely to continue its climb as we are forced to plumb deeper and deeper depths, to explore more remote regions, and to compete among more buyers. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) aside, an historic turn has taken place over the past five years: despite the United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that over 46 billion barrels of oil, 280 trillion cubic feet of gas, and 20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids are trapped in the Permian oil and gas basin that straddles Western Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, despite skyrocketing prices, the actual amount of confirmed, commercially recoverable reserves of crude oil has shrunk, not grown—reversing a trend that has lasted for decades. If needed, further evidence that the petroholic era is screeching to a halt. Meanwhile, coal, which has supplied most of the remaining third of the World energy total, is in ample supply, though it, too, is ultimately depletable. Any massive expansion of coal usage, however, entails the spread of dirty air, a possible hazard to the World’s climate (through an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere), and a ravaging of the Earth as well. #RandolphHarris 4 of 25

Any massive expansion of coal usage, however, entails the spread of dirty air, a possible hazard to the World’s climate (through an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere), and a ravaging of the Earth as well. Even if all these were accepted as necessary risks over the decades to come, coal cannot fit into the tank of an automobile nor carry out many other tasks now performed by oil or gas. Plants to gasify or liquefy coal require staggering amounts of capital and water (much of it needed for agriculture) and are so ultimately inefficient and costly that they, too, must be seen as no more than expensive, diversionary, and highly temporary expedients. Nuclear technology presents even more formidable problems at its present stage of development. Conventional reactors rely on uranium, yet another exhaustible fuel, and carry safety risk that are extremely costly to overcome—if, indeed, they ever can be. No one has convincingly solved the problems of nuclear waste disposal, and nuclear costs are so high that until now government subsidies have been essential to make atomic power remotely competitive with other sources. Fast breeders are in a class by themselves. However, while often presented to the uninformed public as perpetual motion machines because the plutonium they spew out can be used as fuel, they, too, remain ultimately dependent upon the World’s small and non-renewable supply of uranium. They are not only highly centralized, incredibly costly, volatile, and dangerous, they also escalate the risks of nuclear war and terrorist capture of nuclear materials. None of this means that we are going to be thrown back into the middle ages, or that further economic advance is impossible. However, it surely means that we have reached the end of one line of development and must now start another. It means that the Second Wave energy base is unsustainable. #RandolphHarris 5 of 25

Indeed, there is yet another, even more fundamental reason why the World must and will shift to a radically new energy base. For any energy base, whether in a village or an industrial economy, must be suited to the society’s level of technology, the nature of production, the distribution of markets and population, and many other factors. The rise of the Second Wave energy base was associated with society’s advance to a whole new stage of technological growth, the exact reverse was also true. The invention of energy-thirsty, brute technology during the industrial era spurred the ever-more-rapid exploitation of those very fossil fuels. The development of the auto industry, for example, caused so radical an expansion of the oil business that at one time it was essentially a dependency of Detroit. In the words of Donald E. Carr, formerly an oil company research director, and author of Energy and the Earth Machine, the petroleum industry became “a slave to one form of internal combustion engine.” Today we are once more at the edge of an historic technological leap, and the new system of production now emerging will require a radical restricting of the entire energy business—even of OPEC were to fold its tent and quietly steal away. For the great overlooked fact is that the energy problem is not just one of quantity; it is one of structure as well. We not only need a certain amount of energy, but energy delivered in many more varied forms, in different (and changing) locations, at different times of the day, night, and year, and for undreamed-of purposes. #RandolphHarris 6 of 25

This, not simply OPEC’s pricing decisions, explains why the World must search for alternatives to the old energy system. That search has been accelerated, and we are now applying vast new resources of money and imagination to the problem. As a result we are taking a close look at many startling possibilities. While the shift from one energy base to the next will no doubt be darkened by economic and other upheavals, there is another, more beneficial aspect to it. For never in history have so many people plunged with such fervor into a search for energy—and never have we had so many novel and exciting potentials before us. It is clearly impossible to know at this stage which combination of technologies will prove most useful for what tasks, but the array of tools and fuels available to us will surely be staggering, with more and more exotic possibilities becoming commercially plausible as oil prices climb. These possibilities range from photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity (a technology now being explored by Texas Instruments, Solarex, Energy Conversion Devices, and many other companies), to a Russian plan for placing windmill-carrying balloons in the tropopause to beam electricity down to Earth through cables. New York City has contracted with a private firm to burn garbage as fuel and the Philippine Islands are building plants to produce electricity from coconut waste. Italy, Iceland, and New Zealand are already generating electricity from geothermal sources, tapping the heat of the Earth itself, while a five hundred-toon floating platform off Honshu island in Japan is generating electricity from wave power. #RandolphHarris 7 of 25

Solar heating units are sprouting from rooftops around the World, and the Southern California Edison Company is constructing a “power-tower” which will capture solar energy through computer-controlled mirrors, focus it on a tower containing a steam boiler, and generate electricity for its regular customers. In Stuttgart, Germany, a hydrogen-powered bus built by Daimler-Benz has cruised the city streets, while engineers at Lockheed-California are working on a hydrogen-power aircraft. So many new avenues are being explored, they are impossible to catalog in a short space. When we combine new energy-generating technologies with new ways to store and transmit energy, the possibilities become even more far-reaching. General Motors has announced a new, more efficient automobile batter for use in electric cars. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) researchers have come up with “Redox”—a storage system they believe can be produced for one third of the cost of conventional lead acid batteries. With a longer time horizon we are exploring superconductivity and even—beyond the fringes of “respectable” science—Tesla waves as ways of beaming energy with minimal loss. While most of these technologies are still in their early stages of development and many will no doubt prove zanily impractical, others are clearly on the edge of commercial application or will be within a decade or two. Most important is the neglected fact that big breakthroughs often come not from a single isolated technology but from imaginative juxtapositions or combinations of several. Thus we may see solar photovoltaics used to produce electricity which will, in turn, be used to release hydrogen from water so it can be used in cars (BMW already has a model on the market). #RandolphHarris 8 of 25

Today we are still at the pre-takeoff stage as far as what non-gasoline powered car will dominate the market. Once we begin to combine these many new technologies, the number of more potent options will rise exponentially, and we will dramatically accelerate the construction of a Third Wave energy base. This new base will have characteristics sharply different from those of the Second Wave period. For much of its supply will come from renewable, rather than exhaustible sources. Instead of being dependent upon highly concentrated fuels, it will draw on a variety of widely dispersed sources. Instead of depending so heavily on tightly centralized technologies, it will combine both centralized and decentralized energy production. And instead of being dangerously over reliant on a handful of methods or sources, it will be radically diversified in form. This very diversity will make for less waste by allowing us to match the types and quality of energy produced to the increasingly varied needs. In short, we can now see for the first time the outlines of an energy base that runs on principles almost diametrically opposed to those of the recent, three-hundred-year past. It is also clear that this Third Wave energy base will not come into being without a bitter fight. In this war of ideas and money that is already raging in all the high-technology nations, it is possible to discern not two but three antagonists. To begin with, there are those with vested interests in the old, Second Wave status quo. And because they are entrenched in the oil companies, utilities, nuclear commissions, mining corporations, and their associated trade unions, the Second Waves forces seem unassailably in charge. #RandolphHarris 9 of 25

By contrast, those who favour the advance to a Third Wave energy base—a combination of consumers, environmentalists, scientists, and entrepreneurs in the leading-edge industries, along with their various allies—seem scattered, underfinanced, and often politically inept. Second Wave propagandists regularly picture them as naïve, unconcerned with dollar realities, and bedazzled by blue-sky technology. Worse yet, the Third Wave advocates are publicly confused with a vocal fringe of what might best be termed First Wave forces—people who call not for advanced to a new, more intelligent, sustainable, and scientifically based energy system, but for a reversion to the preindustrial past. In extreme form, their policies would eliminate most technology, restrict mobility, cause cities to shrivel and die, and impose an ascetic culture in the name of conservation. By lumping these two groups together the Second Wave lobbyists, public relations experts, and politicians deepen the public confusion and keep the Third Wave forces on the defensive. Nevertheless, supporters of neither First nor Second Wave policies can win in the end. The former are devoted to a fantasy, and the latter are attempting to maintain an energy base whose problems are intractable—in fact, insuperable. The relentlessly rising cost of Second Wave fuels works strongly against them. The fact that Second Wave methods often require heavy inputs of energy to eke out relatively small increments of new “net” energy works against them. The escalating problems of pollution work against them. The nuclear risk works against them. The willingness of thousands in many countries to battle the police in order to stop nuclear reactors or strip mines or giants generating plants works against them. The tremendous rising thirst of the non-industrial World for energy of its own, and for higher process for it resources, works against them. #RandolphHarris 10 of 25

In short, though nuclear reactors or coal gasification or liquefaction plants and other such technologies may seem to be advanced or futuristic and therefore progressive, they are, in fact, artifacts of a Second Wave past caught in its own deadly contradictions. Some may be necessary as temporary expedients, but they are essentially regressive. Similarly, though the forces of the Second Wave may seem powerful and their Third Wave critics feeble, it would be foolish to bet too many chips on the past. Indeed, the issue is not whether the Second Wave energy base will be overthrown, superseded by a new one, but how soon. For the struggle over energy is inextricably intertwined with another change of equal profundity: the overthrow of Second Wave technology. As soon as humans begun mutually to value one another, and the idea of esteem was formed in their minds, each one claimed to have a right to it, and it was no longer possible for anyone to be lacking it with impunity. From this came the first duties of civility, even among savages; and from this every voluntary wrong became an outrage, because along with the harm that resulted from the injury, the offended party saw in it contempt for one’s person, which often was more insufferable than the harm itself. Hence each human punished the contempt shown in one in a manner proportionate to the esteem in which one held oneself; acts of revenge became terrible, and human became bloodthirsty and cruel. This is precisely the stage reached by most of the savage people known to us; and it is for want of having made adequate distinctions among their ideas or of having noticed how far these peoples already where from the original state of nature that many have hastened to conclude that humans are naturally cruel, and that they need civilization in order to soften them. #RandolphHarris 11 of 25

On the contrary, nothing is so gentle as humans in their primitive state, when, placed by nature at an equal distance from the stupidity of brutes and the fatal enlightenment of civil humans, and limited equally by instinct and reason to protecting oneself from the harm that threatens them, one is restrained by natural pity from needlessly harming anyone oneself, even if one has been harmed. For according to the axiom of the wise Locke, where there is no property, there is no injury. However, it must be noted that society in its beginning stages and the relations already established among humans required in them qualities different from those they derived from their primitive constitution; that, with morality beginning o be introduced into human actions, and everyone, prior to the existence of laws, being sole judge and avenger of the offenses one had received, the goodness appropriate to the pure state of nature was no longer what was appropriate to an emerging society; that it was necessary for punishments to become more severe in proportion as the occasions for giving offense became more frequent; and it remained for the fear of vengeance to take the place of the deterrent character of laws. Hence although humans had become less forbearing, and although natural pity had already undergone some alteration, this period of development of human faculties, maintaining a middle position between the indolence of our primitive state and the petulant activity of our egocentrism, must have been the happiest and most durable epoch. The more one reflects on it, the more one finds that this state was the least subject to upheavals and the best for humans, and that one must have left it only by virtue of some fata chance happening that, for the common good, ought never have happened. #RandolphHarris 12 of 25

 The example of savages, almost all of whom have been found in this state, seems to confirm that the human race had been made to remain in it always; that this state is the veritable youth of the World; and that all the subsequent progress has been in appearance so many steps toward the perfection of the individual, and in fact toward the decay of the species. As long as humans were content with the rustic huts, as long as they were limited to making their clothing out of skins sewn together with thorns or fish bones, adorning themselves with feathers and shells, painting their bodies with various colours, perfecting or embellishing their bows and arrows, using sharp-ended stones to make some fishing canoes or some crude musical instruments; in a word, as long as they applied themselves exclusively to tasks that a single individual could do and to the arts that did not require the cooperation of several hands, they lives as free, healthy, good and happy as they could in accordance with their nature; and they continues to enjoy among themselves the sweet rewards of independent intercourse. However, as soon as one human needed the help of another, as soon as one human realized that it was useful for a single individual to have provisions for two, equality disappeared, property came into existence, labour became necessary. Vast forest were transformed into smiling fields which had to be watered with humans’ sweat, and in which slavery and misery were soon seen to germinate and grow with the crops. Metallurgy and agriculture were the two arts whose invention produced this great revolution. Thus they were both unknown to the savages of America, who for that reason have always remained savages. #RandolphHarris 13 of 25

Other peoples even appear to have remained barbarous, as long as they practiced one of those arts without the other. And perhaps one of the best reasons why Europe has been, if not sooner, at least more constantly and better governed than the other parts of the World, is that it is at the same time the most abundant in iron and most fertile in wheat. It is very difficult to guess how human came to know and use iron, for it is incredible that by themselves they though of drawing the ore from the mine and performing the necessary preparations on it for smelting it before they knew what would result. From another point of view, it is even less plausible to attribute this discovery to some accidental fire, because mines are set up exclusively in arid places devoid of trees and planet, so that one would say that nature had taken precautions to conceal this deadly secret from us. Thus there remains only the extraordinary circumstances of some volcano that, in casting forth molten metal, would have given observers the idea of imitating this operation of nature. Even still we must suppose them to have had a great deal of courage and foresight to undertake such a difficult task and to have envisaged so far in advance that advantages hey could derive from it. This is hardly suitable for minds already better trained than theirs must have been. City and country dwellers usually have sharp images of their environments, but suburbanites express some difficulty when asked to describe the communities in which they live. They tend to paint an image of suburbia as a middle landscape. Suburbanites delight in not being part of the city, but they know they are not country or small town either. #RandolphHarris 14 of 25

In the study of the extent of community ideology and identity, there are three sets of imagery salient to suburban ideology that are frequently volunteered by suburbanites.  First, suburbanites describe suburbs as “clean, quiet, and natural places.” Residents view suburbs as small and quitter places with an easygoing ambience. They lack the frenetic pace, and perhaps also the excitement, of the city. On the other side, the suburbs may not be country, but they have openness and provide access to natural things such as birds and trees. Second, the suburbs are seen as a place of “domesticity.” Suburbanites view themselves as interested in home, family life, and children. Suburbs are seen in the suburban ideology as “the best of both Worlds.” This is particularly true when the focus is on raising children. Children are believed to receive a good education in an environment where they have both freedom and security. Third, suburbs are “safe.” The safety of the suburb, in turn, is seen as making other values, such as sociability, family, and good rearing of children, possible. To the extent that crime has move to the suburbs, it is seen as endangering other values. The suburban ideology of the middle landscape as described above is somewhat vague and hazy. It lacks the sharpness with which central city or country residents define their areas. Perhaps this hazy image is because suburbs are often defined by being contrasted with the cleaner vision of the city or country. There is an additional reason for the lack of a compelling image. Based on an interview in Northern California, it was discovered that only one of three suburban residents even designates one’s area as a suburb. #RandolphHarris 15 of 25

In addition to those suburbanists who express a suburban ideology, there also are “suburban villagers” and “suburban urbanists.” The first are those residents who think of their community as being a small town rather than a suburb. They identify suburbs, and suppose suburban problems, exclusively with suburban tract-housing developments. Subdivisions, thus, are suburbs, but older and more diverse housing areas are thought of as small-townish. By contrast, the suburban urbanists, including those who have previously lived in the city, are in some respects reluctant suburbanites. They explain their suburban residence in terms of the suburbs being more distant from cultural and other activities, but being a more attractive place to raise children. They believe the suburbs are a good place to live, but their enthusiasm is somewhat muted. There is one image of suburban life that is missing from suburban dwellers’ own descriptions of the suburban landscape. The missing element is any discussion of race or housing segregation. There are several possible reasons for this absence. It might because suburbanites do not consider housing segregation as uniquely suburban. They might think more in terms of specific neighbourhoods rather than entire communities. For some others the urban versus suburban differences in racial composition may not be important. However, for others the avoidance of the topic may simply reflect that it is not considered socially acceptable to speak favourable of housing segregation. In this view the suburban ideology of clean, peaceful places of good housing and domesticity provides an acceptable vocabulary of motives to explain moving to suburbs. Also, race many not be spoken of because it simply is not an issue in racially homogenous communities. Whatever the reason, race is rarely mentioned. #RandolphHarris 16 of 25

The “myth of suburbia,” which saw the suburban future as one of togetherness and homogeneity, is now a relic of history. It has now been supplanted by a new popular myth, which sees suburbia not as a place of compulsive group conformity, but rather as one of competitive self-advancement and self-fulfillment. Supposedly, the community counts for less and status and success for more. According to an examination of Naperville, Illinois, as the “new suburbia,” “the suburbs and, by extension, middle-class Americans have gone from glorifying group bonding to glorifying individual happiness and achievement.” “Self-actualization,” “self-fulfillment,” and “self-expression” have become the bywords of contemporary suburbia. The argument goes that while suburbanites have become more prosperous, they have also become more anxious about their standard of living. This greater affluence is largely due to women working. While the suburban women of the 1950s were overwhelmingly homemakers, women today also work full time outside the home and own lucrative businesses. In fact, the younger couple, the greater the likelihood of the wife working. The result is that the coupe has more money but also more stress. There is simply not enough free time. Because people are busier, there is less time for the socializing that was so often seen as characterizing the suburbs of the 1950s. There is now less social cohesion and sense of common community, but also less conformity—that is, if one accepts that living a lifestyle where everyone is concerned about self-advancement is no conformity. An interesting point about the above picture of suburbia as the home of self-oriented and self-concerned status seekers is that it is largely identical to the stereotype of the 2020 self-centered, twenty something, upper middle class technology guru, lawyer, or doctor. #RandolphHarris 17 of 25

Yuppie homeowners are characterized as focusing on self and success rather than on family and community. Many of these youth own large homes, with many rooms they do not even use, and have homes like look like model homes, more than one car and a water vehicle. As they mature and settle down, they will meet a partner, move than individual into their oversized home, marry, have children and focus on more traditional and communal values. This may, in part, reflect tougher economic times as well as simply the aging of the people in the age of information. It will be interesting to see if a new generation of examinations of suburbia will again report residents heavily involved in community and socialization. Or has the general movement of women into the work force, as opposed to the 1950s, changed the equation? So women who are still responsible for much of home and family work have time for social activities such as preparing dinner parties? Does the time for casual coffee klatching still exist? To err is human. What…then is a human? How strange and monstrous! Depository of truth, yet a cesspool of uncertainty and error…Who will unravel this tangle? We psychologist are found of nothing contradictions in the accumulated cultural wisdom. When noting that almost every conceivable proposition about human nature has at some point been argued by someone, we chuckle. Thus we have proverbs for many occasions, such as for times when “absence makes the heart grow fonder” or, conversely, when “out of sight (becomes) out of mind.” From the self-actualized of the ages we similarly get a confusing portrayal of human nature. #RandolphHarris 18 of 25

We know from Juvenal, the Roman satirist, that people “hate those who have been condemned” and from Ralph Waldo Emerson that “the martyr cannot be dishonoured.” We can base our persuasive appeals on the assumption of Shakespeare’s Lysander that “the will of man is by his reason sway’s,” or we can follow the advice of Lord Chesterfield: “Address yourself generally to the senses, to the heart, and to the weakness of humankind, but rarely to their reason.” We see the need for a science of human nature that will winnow fact from falsehood. Yet we know that whether we find that togetherness or separation most intensifies attraction, whether people more often despise or honour those who suffer, whether reason or emotion is generally more persuasive, there will be someone who anticipated our finding. In hindsight, almost any finding—or its opposite—can seem like obvious common sense. Yet there were keen observers of human behaviour in centuries past. These were people who, without modern techniques of research and analysis, observed the same sorts of motives and behaviours that we observe today and anticipated some of psychology’s current themes. One such theme is the puzzling mixture of human wisdom and human foolishness. We today better understand how as the seventeenth-century philosopher-mathematician Blaise Pascal put it, “Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.” We marvel at the capabilities of our brains; we are awed by the seemingly limitless capacities of our visual memory; we extol our abilities to solve problems and learn language. #RandolphHarris 19 of 25

Yet, like Pascal, we also have been bemused and even startled by our capacity for error, illusion, and self-deceit. Because, as the psalmist recognized, “no one can see one’s own errors,” psychologist have devoted much energy of late to revealing our most common errors. Several of these were anticipated in Francis Bacon’s remarkably perceptive Novum Organuum, first published in 1620. Bacon, a Christian statesman and philosopher who popularized the idea that science explored God’s “book of nature,” identified several “idols” or fallacies of the human mind. We have our secrets and our needs to confess. We may remember how, in childhood, adults at first were able to look right through us, and into us, and what an accomplishment it was when we, in fear and trembling, could tell our first lie, and make, for ourselves, the discovery that we are irredeemably alone in certain respects, and know that within the territory of ourselves there can be only our footprints. There are some people, however, who never fully real-ize themselves in this position. This genuine privacy is the basis of genuine relationship; but the person whom we call “schizoid” feels both more exposed, more vulnerable than we do, and more isolated. Thus schizophrenic patients may say that they are made of glass, of such transparency and fragility that a look directed at them splinters them to bits and penetrates straight through them. We may suppose that precisely as such they experience themselves. People may have a sense of their presence in the World as real, alive, whole, and in a temporal sense, continuous. As such, the can live out into the World and meet others:  World and others experiences as equally real, alive whole and continuous. #RandolphHarris 20 of 25

Such basically ontologically secure people will encounter all the hazards of life—social, ethical, spiritual, biological—from a centrally firm sense of their own and other people’s reality and identity. It is often difficult for people with such a sense of their own integral selfhood and personal identity, of the permanency of things, of the reliability of natural processes, of the substantiality of others, to transpose themselves into the World of an individual whose experiences may be utterly lacking in any unquestionable self-validating certainties. Suffering humanity needs all the help it can get. It cannot afford to reject either nature-cure, homeopathy, or allopathy. It needs all three and even more. A prudent and balanced approach to the question of healing requires us o make use of the services of allopathy as well as homeopathy, psychotherapy as well as physiotherapy, spiritual healing as well as mesmeric treatment, herbalism and even surgery—if and when needed—if we are to make the fullest use of developed human knowledge and skill. One who knows one branch of healing is like a bird with one wing. Why should anyone reject the physician and one’s medicines for the osteopath and one’s manipulations, or both for the healer and one’s prayer? The power which cures works through all three; if it did not, if it worked through a single channel alone, the others would never have been needed, found, and used. Whether it is religion or science, official allopathic medicine or less established homeopathic medicine, each can make us its beneficiary and has its contribution to give us. However, each also has its undesirable side too often a sectarian narrow intolerance of the other. #RandolphHarris 21 of 25

The World of knowledge, culture, techniques, skills, arts, and worship should be open to all seekers—whether their quest is for truth, God, information, or healing—and not dictatorially limited in its offering to the established, the traditional, the successful, and the conventional. Is there a science of spiritual healing? If there is, we can discover it only by freeing ourselves from the cultist standpoint; for, with conflicting doctrines, and different methods, Christian Science Spiritism, Roman Catholicism, Hypnotism, and Coueism have yet produced similar results. It follows that these healings do not prove all their claims but may prove a part. Every healer orthodox and unorthodox, has one’s percentage of failures, although the figure is generally unknown. Spiritual healing is not a universal cure-all. It is complementary to other systems. From the moment that a healing cult fastens itself to the Bible exclusively it will widen one’s visions and increase powers, but it is still important to see a doctor and allow as many resources God has provided you with to allow His grace and blessings to heal you. When truth gets into the hands of fanatics they do it hard. One human teaches that all disease is caused by wrong diet only, but another teaches that it is caused by wrong thinking only. However, truth says that both these causes are operative in the human World, as well as several others. It will have to be recognized that, since we exist simultaneously on two levels, all our problems of suffering and sickness must be looked at from two points of view if they are to be adequately seen and grasped. There is the common and familiar immediate one, which deals with them as they are in appearance. There is the uncommon and unfamiliar alternative one which deals with them as they are in reality. An orthodox physician treating a case of disease takes the first viewpoint. A Christian Science practitioner treating the same case takes the second one. Neither takes a wholly adequate and truly philosophical view.  #RandolphHarris 22 of 25

To put the body under a necessary discipline is not the same as putting it under an unnecessary tormenting asceticism. Those who cry out that the body is being maltreated when it is no longer fed unhealthy food, or gorged with oils, or poisoned with fiery liquor, cry a false alarm. During a body purification, which sometimes takes as long as twelve months, one’s efforts should proceed strenuously, and should not only be concerned with the thoughts themselves but also with the physical intake, solid and liquid. In this matter it is better to be fastidious, and to reject much that is offered. As one’s mind becomes purer and one’s emotions come under control, one’s thoughts become clearer and one’s instincts truer. As one learns to live more and more in harmony with one’s higher Self, one’s body’s natural intuition becomes active of itself. The result is that false desires and unnatural instincts which have been imposed upon it by others or by oneself will become weaker and weaker and fall away entirely in time. This may happen without any attempt to undergo an elaborate system of self-discipline on one’s part: yet it will affect one’s way of living, one’s diet, one’s habits. False cravings like the craving for smoking tobacco will vanish of their own accord; false appetites like the appetite for alcoholic liquor or flesh food will likewise vanish; but the more deep-seated the desire, the longer it will take to uproot it—except in the case of some who will hear and answer a heroic call for an abrupt change. It is also inhuman and unreasonable to demand, as the price of spiritual peace, that we shall renounce all Earthly satisfactions to the point of neither enjoying delicious food nor feeling aversion to repulsive food. #RandolphHarris 23 of 25

Those who sin against their body in order to keep the good opinion of others, or to appear sociable or convivial, commit the further sin of being weak, insincere, and fearful. It is not by any kind of privilege that anyone obtains the glimpse but by preparation and equilibration, with some amount of purification. To equilibrate is to calm feelings as and when necessary and render them deeper, exquisitely delicate. To suppose that you are going to be wafted into this lofty awareness of the Overself without having to work very hard and very long for it, is to be a simpleton. The glimpse of Heaven comes and the glimpse goes, suddenly or slowly, and this coming and this going are independent of one’s will. This does not, however, mean that one is totally helpless in the matter. Instruction or experience or both can teach one what those conditions are which assist the onset of the glimpse and those which obstruct it. Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst, please help us to find the way to refresh your lands. We pray for your power to refresh your lands. Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution, please help us to find the way to cleanse your waters. We pray for your knowledge to find the way to cleanse the waters. Great Spirit, whose beautiful Earth grows ugly with misuse, please help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork. We pray for your strength to restore the beauty of your beautiful sky. Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed, please help us to find a way to replenish them. We pray for your power to replenish the Earth. Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost in selfishness and corruption, please help us to find the way to restore our humanity. #RandolphHarris 24 of 25

God, we pray for your wisdom to find the way to restore our humanity. You are the God of our salvation; the Lord of hosts be with us; the God of Jacob be a stronghold unto us. O Lord of hosts, happy is the human that trusteth in Thee. Please save, O Lord; O King, answer us on the day when we call. Blessed by our God who hath created us for His glory, and hath separated us from them that go astray by giving us the Scripture of truth, thus planting everlasting life in our midst. May God open our hearts unto His Law, and with love and reverence may we do His will and serve Him with a perfect heart that we may not labour in vain nor bring forth confusion. May it be Thy will, O Lord our God and God of our fathers, that we keep Thy statutes in the World, and be worthy to live and inherit happiness and blessings in the days of the Messiah and in the life of the World to come. May my soul sing Thy praise and not be silent; O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto Thee forever. Blessed is the human that trusteth in Thee, O Lord, and whose trust Thou art. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord is an everlasting Rock. And they that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee; Thou hast not forsaken them that seek Thee. Thou, O Lord, desirest for the sake of Thy righteousness to make the Scriptures great and glorious. Magnified and sanctified be the name of God throughout the World which He hath created according to His will. May He establish His Kingdom during the days of your life and during the life of all the house of America, speedily, yea, soon; and say ye, Amen. In man’s unending search for civilizations, his pursuit of science may be the very thing keeping him from his Creator.  #RandolphHarris 25 of 25

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